Numbers 35:19

Lighthouse Bible 2006

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me.

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not permit the avengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall put out my burning coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband either name or anything remaining upon the earth.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Numbers 35:12

And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

But if he pushes him out of hatred, or hurls at him by laying in wait, that he dies;

Numbers 35:21

Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, that he dies: he that struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

Numbers 35:24

Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

Numbers 35:27

And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

Deuteronomy 19:12

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

So that the avenger of the blood does not pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him; whereas he was not worthy of death, because he did not hate him in time past.

Joshua 20:3

That the slayer that kills any person unexpectedly and unknowingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate beforehand.

Judges 8:19

And he said, They were my brothers, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you.